Published in 1901, The First Men in the Moon is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in the English language. An impecunious businessman, Bedford, retreats to the Kent coast where he meets the archetypal absent-minded scientist, Dr Cavor, who is on the point of producing a gravity-defying material.

Děkujeme za zájem o poslechový kurz Technické polštiny. Kurz je určen pro začátečníky až středně pokročilé a zaměřuje se na slovní zásobu, kterou můžete využít v technické oblasti.

Completed six years after Dostoyevsky’s own term as a convict, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp, and the physical and mental effects it has on those who are sentenced to inhabit it. Alexandr Petrovitch Goryanchikov, a gentleman of the noble class, has been condemned to ten years of hard labour for murdering his wife.

Entertaining and insightful, David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion are considered to be among the most important philosophical works on the topic of religion. Each investigates the formation and consequencesof religious belief: taking the form of a Platonic dialogue between three speakers (a sceptic, an empiricist and a theologian/mystic), the first

Published in 1897, The Spoils of Poynton is one of the quintessential works of James’s middle period. The ‘spoils’ of the book’s title refer to furniture and other objets d’art that the widow Adela Gereth moves to her cottage so that they are kept away from the clutches of her coarse future daughter-in-law, Mona Brigstock.

First published in 1471, the year of the author’s death, The Imitation of Christ is a highly influential Christian text. A celebration of God’s mercy, holiness and love, The Imitation is a devotional guide in which Christians are urged to trust fully in God and submit to the circumstances of the life which we are given by God.

Ed Loyce is a store owner who is faced with a strange sight: someone is hanging from a lamppost. Furthermore, alien insects have taken over yet no one seems to consider things to be out of the ordinary.

Kurz Španělská slovíčka A1/A2 je určen pro úplné i falešné začátečníky, takže pokud jste se španělsky učili před nějakou dobou a chcete si základy důkladně zopakovat, je určen právě pro vás. Je založen na kontextovém učení, to znamená, že se nebudete učit jen slovíčka, ale i věty, ve kterých můžete daná slovíčka použít.

The book of Isaiah is Narrative History, Prophetic Oracle, and even a Parable (chapter 5). The prophet Isaiah wrote it at approximately 700 B.C. (Chapters 40-66, written later in his life approx. 681 B.C.). Isaiah is the first book in the section called Major Prophets. They are called Major Prophets because of the large amount of material they wrote not because their message was more important than

The genre of Psalms is Songs and Poetry of all kinds. It is written by multiple authors; David wrote 73, Asaph wrote 12, the sons of Korah wrote 9, Solomon wrote 3, Ethan, and Moses each wrote one (Ps. 90), and 51 of the Psalms are anonymous.

Herman Melville‘s picturesque account of the Galapagos Islands will make you want to abandon all responsibilities and travel there to see for yourself. Melville wrote this series of \"sketches\" – or short prose works – from his own experiences sailing around the islands, yet at the same time they are clearly a product of his extraordinary imagination.

Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles\' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art.

The fourth step into the Darkness is called Murderers, and it takes the listener into the realm of vampire stories and haunted houses The first – The Tomb of Sara – was written by English navy officer, and writer, Frederick George Loring. It was one of thevery first stories from the last century featuring a lady vampire.

Povídka od světoznámého spisovatele Arthura Conana Doyle je převedena do zjednodušené verze a. nahrána rodilým mluvčím. Uživatel tak může cvičit své porozumění mluvené angličtině.

Příběh Robinsona Crusoe patří zaslouženě do zlatého fondu světové literatury. Ukazuje vůli člověka, který věří sám v sebe a dokáže překonat řadu životních nezdarů.

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr Rochester?

A Midsummer Night’s Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts – between city and country, reason and imagination, love and infatuation. Play: Music and opening announcement 1:21 Act 1 Scene 1 6:20 Act 1 Scene 1:

This fictionalised portrait of Joyce’s youth is one of the most vivid accounts of the growth from childhood to adulthood. Dublin at the turn of the century provides the backdrop as Stephen Dedalus moves from town and society, towards the irrevocable decision to leave.

Audiokniha má obtížnost četby B2 Cathy’s life is changed forever when her father brings home an abandoned child he names Heathcliff. As Cathy and Heathcliff grow up, their love for each other is as wild as the moors.

Audiokniha má obtížnost četby A2 Ein Heldenepos aus dem Mittelalter. Der starke und mutige Siegfried bezahlt mit dem Tod für seine Liebe zu Kriemhild, der Schwester der mächtigen Burgunder-Könige.